Event forecast period was July-December 2020.
July 1: British PM Boris Johnson says up to three million Hong Kong residents will be offered citizenship in the United Kingdom allowing them to settle in the UK for five years under political asylum.
July 7: A court (Jupiter-house 9) in Vietnam sentences a 29-year-old Facebook user (house 9) to eight years in prison for making anti-government posts, including several criticizing communist leader Ho Chi Minh (Sun).
September 22: In an internationally coordinated global operation (Pluto) that targeted dark web marketplaces (Pluto) police forces seize more than $6.5m (£5m) in cash and virtual currencies (Jupiter), as well as drugs (Neptune) and guns (Mars). Some 179 people were arrested across Europe and the US. Edvardas Sileris, head of Europol’s cyber-crime center (Pluto) said it ends the ‘golden age’ of these underground marketplaces.
November 9: Hope (Jupiter) and Wall Street (house 5) soar when US drugmaker Pfizer Inc (Neptune) reports that its experimental covid-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective based on initial trial results.
November 10: Vatican says a two-year investigation has found that Pope John Paul 11 (Jupiter) knew of sexual misconduct allegations against ex-cardinal McCarrick years before his removal.
November 15: Ten Southeast Asian countries, as well as South Korea, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand form the world’s largest trading bloc (Jupiter-Pluto) covering a third of the global economy.
SpaceX and NASA launch the first commercial (Jupiter) crew mission (Pluto) to the International Space Station.
November 19: According to a report tax cheats (Pluto-house 8) deprive governments worldwide of $427 billion (Jupiter) with poorer countries losing a larger share of their total tax revenue (house 8) to the abusive practices — about 5.8 % vs. 2.5% in high-income countries.
December 3: A judge (Jupiter) in Italy indicts 444 suspected members of the ’Ndrangheta mafia (Pluto) on an array of charges, including murder, attempted murder, extortion (Pluto), money laundering (Neptune) and drug trafficking; and more than 400 lawmakers (Jupiter-Pluto) from 34 countries sign a letter to Amazon.com Inc boss Jeff Bezos backing a campaign that claims the tech giant has ‘dodged and dismissed … debts to workers, societies, and the planet’.
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